Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip!
November 18, 2005
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I am fully aware that liquids often spill in that short passage from cup to the human lip, and I assure there will be many slips in the coming months toward what I believe will be the beginning of the false peace found in I Thessalonians 5:3,4, but at least the cup is finally heading toward
the Palestinian and Israeli lips that will drink it.
A previous BLOG, “Looking Good for False Peace,” has now received an additional reinforcement from the article which follows by Orley Halpern in the Jerusalem Post. We are finally hopping down the bunny trail toward what will eventually give Israel a feeling of “peace and security.”
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Shalom, Abbas Hold ‘Very Good’ Meetings
By Orly Halpern, THE JERUSALEM POST
November 16, 2005
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met Wednesday with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in a formal meeting in the Tunisian capital marking a renewal of high-level talks between the two sides after long months of cancelled summits and postponed appointments.
Both Shalom and Abbas later addressed the UN assembly each speaking about their grievances towards the peace process and the need to fight terror on the internet.
The meeting between the leaders took place at the UN World Summit on the Information Society where thousands of participants from all over the world met to discuss how to close the gap in information technology access between the developed and the developing world.
Shalom and Abbas met twice Wednesday, once by chance and once as planned. After the first meeting, Shalom told The Jerusalem Post that the meetings were “very good.”
Israeli officials said that not only was the meeting significant in and of itself, but so was the setting in a meeting hall with an
Israeli flag outside the door on Arab soil in a country which once hosted the PLO and does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
The two leaders discussed the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip, and talked about Hamas and Hizbullah.
“I told him that the model of Gaza must succeed and that it will bring calm and I hope it will help the Palestinians,” Shalom told the Post. His words came one day after Israel signed an agreement with the Palestinians over the Rafah border crossing.
“I hope it will help the Palestinians.”
Shalom quoted Abbas as saying that he was “happy that after five years we finally have signed an agreement on something, that we need to go forward with the peace process and that we cannot stop it every time there is an attack.”
However, the foreign minister said he told Abbas that “we cannot have a situation where in the morning there are peace talks and in the afternoon there is a terror attack.”
Shalom warned Abbas “that Hamas was trying to destabilize” his administration.
According to Shalom, Abbas
told him that improving relations with the Palestinians would improve the relations between Israel and the Arab and Muslim world.
The foreign minister has made it his goal since taking office three years ago to promote relations with Arab and Muslim countries.
The meeting was “very positive,” said Shalom. “At the end he sent his regards to [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon.”
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